Sentences with phrase «on federal stimulus money»

When I interviewed him in Nashville, he chided his gubernatorial colleagues for relying too heavily on federal stimulus money, saying, «An awful lot of states took that money and treated it as continuing money and not like one - time help.»

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While this sounds like monetary madness, it should be remembered that Ben Bernanke, former Chair of the US Federal Reserve, urged such action on the Japanese government a decade ago to deal with that country's deflationary crisis, and referenced Milton Friedman's argument that a central bank financed stimulus via a «helicopter drop» of money could have saved the United States from the Great Depression.

My priorities will be to slash wasteful federal spending, set our nation on a path to a balanced budget, end bailouts for bad business decisions, take leftover money from the Obama stimulus package to pay down the deficit, and repeal Obamacare.

Speaking on «The Capitol Pressroom» recently, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said government jobs are suffering now because they were shielded from the recession in the beginning with federal stimulus money.

A detailed look at the impact (some say lack of impact) federal stimulus money has had on creating jobs for Bronxites.

By Sean Ryan The president of a sewer construction company near Milwaukee wants the city to spend more federal stimulus money on sewer construction.

-- With Florida facing a shrinking population for the first time since World War II, Republican Gov. Charlie Crist and the GOP - controlled Legislature balanced a $ 5.9 billion shortfall with cuts, federal stimulus money and tax hikes, including a $ 1 - a-pack tax increase on cigarettes.

The $ 10 - billion price tag to get these projects on track is equally ambitious — California is looking for $ 4.7 billion of this to come from the $ 8 billion in stimulus money the federal government is making available for high - speed rail projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

When scientists talk about federal stimulus money for research, many focus on the approaching «cliff,» when funding will run out after 2 years.

We know that the focus of the stimulus package is on short - term spending over 1 - 2 years, without long - term commitments of federal money.

Becca, the largest impact of federal stimulus money for CCSD has been on improving student achievement.

The Center on Education Policy surveyed districts in the spring and found that 46 percent expect funding decreases of 5 percent or more in the 2011 — 12 school year (the poll asked districts about their «total funds available» for the year, excluding federal stimulus monies).

As a result of this legislation, over 350,000 education - related jobs were saved, state governments devised ambitious plans to compete for $ 4 billion in «Race to the Top» grants, and the federal government put forth solutions to the problems faced by the nation's weakest schools But the long - term impact of the stimulus money is much more unclear, according to a nationwide review led by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers Association.

July 16, 2009 Gov. Charlie Crist keeps hailing the federal stimulus package as a magic job - saver — on Wednesday he pointed to $ 2 billion of the money helping 26,000 teachers stay employed in Florida.

In Texas, most districts that used the federal money for professional development focused on supporting current programs or training teachers to use new technology or instructional materials purchased with other stimulus funds.

That rout was triggered by the prospect of less Federal Reserve stimulus and, while a withdrawal of easy - money policies still weighs on investors» minds, that's not the full story now.

Chu gave a talk this afternoon on the science of climate change and the $ 70 billion federal stimulus monies his department is spending on alternative energy and conservation projects.